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Serie: Oxford world's classics
paperbackEngels480 blz.9780199538737
1e druk
26-2-2009
The accessible introduction and clear notes by Stalley examine the historical and philosophical background of the work and discuss its significance for modern political thought. Meer
34% KORTING
paperbackEngels528 blz.9780192805928
1e druk
9-10-2008
The Federalist Papers are an indispensable guide to the intentions of the founding fathers who created the United States, and a canonical text in the development of western political thought. Meer
paperbackEngels608 blz.9780198854647
11-7-2024
'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts'
Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early nineteenth-century British India. Meer
paperbackEngels224 blz.9780199540327
1e druk
17-4-2008
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Meer
paperbackEngels304 blz.9780199552313
10-7-2008
Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called 'the Koran in Persian'. Meer
paperbackEngels576 blz.9780199296620
28-8-2008
'I must apply my self to Experience; as far as that reaches, I may have certain Knowledge, but no farther.'
In An Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. Meer
paperbackEngels560 blz.9780199535767
17-4-2008
Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. Meer
paperbackEngels240 blz.9780199536214
8-5-2008
The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature. Meer
paperbackEngels608 blz.9780199670802
2e druk
9-7-2015
The four essays in this volume examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes. Meer
27% KORTING
paperbackEngels368 blz.9780199538362
11-12-2008
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest for immortality is dashed through one moment of weakness. Meer
paperbackEngels544 blz.9780199553853
10-7-2008
To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity
This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surroundings on the brink of womanhood and the modern world. Meer
paperbackEngels544 blz.9780199540082
8-5-2008
`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand. Meer
paperbackEngels320 blz.9780199540266
17-4-2008
The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. Meer
paperbackEngels272 blz.9780199537808
9-10-2008
'Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.'
With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Meer
paperbackEngels352 blz.9780199537822
14-8-2008
In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Meer
paperbackEngels176 blz.9780199573202
15-9-2011
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a private notebook of philosophical reflections with universal significance. Drawing on Stoic philosophy, Marcus confronts challenges that affect us all in our struggle to live meaningful lives. Meer
27% KORTING
paperbackEngels432 blz.9780199536849
12-6-2008
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth. Meer
paperbackEngels240 blz.9780199537075
14-8-2008
`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.'
Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. Meer
paperbackEngels384 blz.9780199540679
13-11-2008
`If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance. Meer